Susanna Wesley’s Rules for Raising Godly Children

JOHN WESLEY MOMENTS
DAVE HANSON

Susanna Wesley’s Rules for Raising Godly Children:

• Eating between meals not allowed.
• Take medicine without complaining.
• Obey parents (break their self-will).  How will they ever obey God if they do not obey their parents?
• Teach them to pray as soon as they can speak.
• Require all to be still during Family Worship.
• Teach them to cry softly so as not to disturb others.
• Give them nothing that they cry for.
• To prevent lying, punish no fault which is first confessed and repented of.
• Never allow a sinful act to go unpunished.
• Never punish a child twice for a single offense.
• Comment and reward good behavior.
• Any attempt to please, even if poorly performed, should be commended.
• Preserve property rights, even in smallest matters.
• Strictly keep all promised.
• Teach children to fear the rod.